Hear from one of First Colony’s Honduran mission partners, Santos Espinosa, who is the Evangelism & Discipleship Director for Mission Lazarus. Santos oversees 12 church leaders and 24 churches as they labor to multiply Christ Kingdom. Santos grew up in Honduras and speaks Spanish, but we are fortunate to have him speaking in English for us today. Hear what the current country satiation is, how the churches are doing and how our church can be praying for them.
Hello and welcome to Anchor Point, the daily podcast of the First Colony Church of Christ in Sugar Land, Texas, and I am Santos Espinoza from San Marcos Honduras. Thanks for joining us today.
The current situation of Covid 19 in our country is difficult, cases continue to grow and our health system is not prepared with sufficient medical supplies. People are only allowed to go out once every two weeks to buy food.
As a church we have not been able to have meetings in our building. Some members of our congregations are going through difficult times since they do not have jobs. Other members are afraid of getting sick and not receiving medical attention, while still other members are struggling with depression. However, we continue to wait on God. As pastors we make home visits and phone calls with the purpose of praying and encouraging members. Also, our congregations are bringing food to the poorest families in their churches.
Mission Lazaro has been greatly affected, donations were reduced, however we continue with our mission of bringing eternal light to families in the Name of Jesus Christ. Currently we have logistically supported the government in delivering food to the poorest families of all villages of San Marcos.
Our coffee farm, is a productive company in this emergency, has not stopped operations and currently our team is working during normal hours from Monday to Friday. This in turn allows our team to enjoy a living wage since many companies have now closed either because they do not have income for their operations or due to the national emergency. It should be noted that 3 weeks ago our farm was about to be completely destroyed due to a forest fire. The fire was managed by our team and neighbors in the community. While the fire did burn 60 forest blocks, we believe God build a fence of angels around our coffee farm as it was not harmed at all. The fires went right up to the edge but didn’t harm any of the crop. God was good and protected the coffee and all of us.
Our medical team is attending to chronic disease patients at the clinic in Cedeño and La Pitas. They are also providing training to health centers to prevent the spread of the virus.
We cannot deny that the situation is difficult due to Covid 19, but through it we have learned some life lessons:
Thank you, First Colony Church of Christ, for supporting and praying for us. Thanks to the team that traveled to Honduras two months ago to build our house. The day after you returned to your country, the emergency quarantine started here. You did a great job here. You left the church, encouragement and love. Thanks for building our house, the foundation and walls are in place, it has not been completed due to the Covid 19 emergency, but we know it will happen in Gods timing. Thank you!
A word that refreshes us and encourages us to keep shining in the Name of Jesus is that which is in Nahum 1: 7 ¨Jehovah is good, strength in the day of trouble; and he knows those
